Alxzarza: Death in the Desert

Alxzarza: Death in the Desert by Sorrow

249 cards in Multiverse

101 commons, 80 uncommons, 53 rares, 15 mythics

34 white, 35 blue, 35 black, 35 red,
35 green, 36 multicolour, 23 artifact, 16 land

140 comments total

Don't you forget about dying. Don't you forget about your friend Death. Don't you forget that you will die. Wild West meets death plane

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On Ossuary (reply):
  1. Does this even work?

  2. If was hard to make this feel distinct in translation from concept to Magic card. Re-triggerinng the dying abilities is based on moving the bones from a grave to an ossuary.

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Artifact – Monument
Tap an untapped creature you control and sacrifice a noncreature permanent: Scry X and draw a card, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
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Creature – Giraffe
Hexproof
Pronghorns make even Ellinsgard look a fool.
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last 2024-09-02 11:09:07 by Sorrow
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Legendary Planeswalker – Magnus
+1: Until the beginning of your next upkeep, whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, its controller loses 1 life.
-3: Exile target tapped creature.
-8: You gain an emblem with "Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life."
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Legendary Planeswalker – Ghoulbark
+1: Until end of turn, whenever you tap a land, gain 1 life.
-1: Search your library for a land, reveal it, add it to your hand, then shuffle.
-6: Exile all lands you control and Ghoulbark, Cactus Botanist, then restart the game and return all lands exiled by Ghoulbark to the battlefield under your control.
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Creature – Ogre Rogue
Quick {3}{b} (You may cast this spell as if it had flash for its Quick cost. If you do, it enters the battlefield tapped.)
When Broken Creek Graverobber enters the battlefield tapped, exile target creature card from a graveyard and create a Gold token (It's an artifact with "Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.").
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2022-07-28 16:35:23 by SecretInfiltrator

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On Gemcrown Pronghorn:

There is an okapi in Magic that's an antelope, and frankly, this kind of incorrect reflection/choice is unacceptable, especially when dog, wolf, and coyote are all separated (but somehow raccoon dogs, which are more closely related to foxes, end up as dogs). Ignorance of the audience shouldn't be an excuse, especially since these are almost never have in-game mechanical tribal relevance. And, for Dogs and Wolves, would tribal relevance between the two even be a gameplay problem?

On Gemcrown Pronghorn:

From my understanding, among the ruminant branches, the pecora infraorder splits into two brances, one branch having giraffidae and the pronghorn, with the other branch having deer and another branch that splits into bovidae (which would include animals called antelope) and a branch for musk deer.

On Broken Creek Graverobber:

I like that the flash matters here a little extra.

I commented before that it's weird that "quick" includes "enters the battlefield tapped", but this time I come up with a fix: Use a term that means not just "fast", but "fast but sloppy"/"acted before thought"/"in a hurry" e. g. "rushed"/"rash"/"madcap" etc.

On Nihiita, Lord of Consumption:

> Tatterkite's ability evades Nihiita's, but unless Tatterkite and Nihiita were the only creatures on the battlefield, the reflex should still trigger.

How come? You failed to put a counter on each other creature since there is one other counter you didn't put a counter on. I think you have to write out what you want the condition to be rather than write "do" e. g. (for what you seem to want) "When you put one or more counters creatures this way".

If nothing else, it removes ambiguity.

On Nihiita, Lord of Consumption:

I think the trigger would still work, though I admit I am not super-knowledgable with the rules here. Nihiita, Lord of Consumption puts the counter on each other creature. Tatterkite's ability evades Nihiita's, but unless Tatterkite and Nihiita were the only creatures on the battlefield, the reflex should still trigger. I would also think, with the current wording, so long as a creature gains a counter from Nihiita's ability, the reflex will trigger and still count any creatures that died in other ways (if this is an issue, could wording be changed to "creatures that died this way" instead?).

On Nihiita, Lord of Consumption:

Now that I look at it, I notice an issue: If your opponent controls Tatterkite, will the reflexive trigger work? I'd guess, no. I don't know whether that's an issue with you.

On Cremator's Tax:

­Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge puts it at a lower cost than I expected, especially considering that you get it permanently on a big flying defender that eventually will attack.

And this is almost strictly weaker.

I also have to consider that you could get nothing out of it, if you have no artifact cards in your graveyard.

The difference between a possibly expensive artifact for free and a Gold token is just so big.


As another reference, you could compare Gold to 2/2 tokens on Rise of the Dread Marn.

On Cremator's Tax:

Is there a reference?

On Cremator's Tax:

How much would "Create a Gold token for each creature that has died this turn" cost?

On La Gran Aguja:

It's a very big cactus. I never really included what Maxemarc Ghoulbark was doing on Alxzarza as Ghoulbark, Cactus Botanist, but he was studying cacti as he continues to look for treatments for his undescribed genetic disorder.

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